A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

The fifth mystery is depicted in art by the 19th-century British pre-Raphaelite painter, William Holman Hunt. Most people ...

Dark El Greco clouds threatened overhead, stark against bright, clear horizons. Hail pelted the masses of people clogging the ...

Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Christian Church in Mount Crawford is in the process of having its walls painted. But these are ...

I am surely not the only child who was stressed to see Catholic calendars displaying images of Jesus adorned with an anatomically explicit, occasionally bleeding, heart.

The artist called the eight-foot-tall painting of Jesus on the cross one of his "very best." The New Yorker called it “his ...

The statue was stolen from the National Shrine of St. John Neumann, almost exactly a year after a vandal shattered the shrine ...

Miller’s script digs into the psychology of captivity, the inner pain of isolation and the stubborn human need for meaning.

Dan and Becky Okrent spent seven years on the Met Project, a labor of love that took them from ancient Sumer to Synchronism.

Large wine bottles simply didn't exist. Wine was sometimes put into earthenware vessels, but these were fragile and highly ...

That you could see the painting of Jesus from anywhere in the south end of the nearby ... Notre Dame finds new spins on a ...

A RELIGIOUS shrine sealed up by the ancestors of Jesus has been discovered in the ancient heart of Jerusalem, frozen in time for nearly 3,000 years. Carved into the rock on the east slope of the ...